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Blood Father
2016
· Movie
· 88 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3194
- IMDb #3692
- Google retired #2711
- Rotten Tomatoes #1985
- Metacritic #2200
- Letterboxd #3825
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1141
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3158
- Metacritic Critics #1877
- Metacritic Audience #2862
- Criticker #2736
- Kinopoisk #4536
- AlloCiné #3619
- Trakt #3207
Every rating
38–89
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 38, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 78, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An ex-convict and recovering alcoholic is trying to live a quiet life when his estranged teenage daughter suddenly reappears. She is on the run from dangerous drug dealers she has stolen from, and he must use every ounce of his violent past to protect her and redeem himself.
Details
- Director
- Jean-François Richet
- Writers
- Andrea Berloff, Peter Craig
- Based on
- a work by Peter Craig
- Studio
- Wild Bunch, Why Not Productions
- Released
- 11 August 2016
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $6.9M
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